Senior Software Engineer

Company Description

Are you ready to be a big part of something big?

At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. For 28 years we've been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow.

When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. Small enough to quickly change tack, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership.

Not something you'd expect from one of the country's biggest tech companies, is it?

A career in Software Engineering will see you working on products that are used every single day by our millions of customers all over the world. This position is within our ACIL (Auto, Corporate, Industry & Leisure) Tribe. The tribe, in a nutshell, focuses on high availability product for Dealership customers to buy and sell their inventory. It plays a vital role in allowing them to maximise their online customer interaction and sale funnels – See our AutoGate - Automotive retail software from Ltd.

We embrace a hybrid way of working – mixing working from home with the energy and connection that comes from being together in the office. We champion flexibility and have many policies, procedures and leave options to support flexible work.

What's on offer:

• A place where you can move your career forward, where you'll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world.
• We're proud to be recognised as one of Australia's Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work, a Family Friendly Workplace, a WORK180 endorsed employer for women.
• The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that's you'll actually have face time with.
• A wide range of benefits such as 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, and six weeks paid gender affirming care leave.

Job Description

What you'll do

As the Senior Software Engineer, you'll be part of a passionate engineering squad focused on building products that delivery quality solutions to our customers . Working closely with skilled colleagues in Engineering, Product, and Design.

• Using your expertise in modern agile practices, you'll contribute to planning, building and supporting great software solutions that deliver quality at scale, automating where possible.
• Be involved in all aspects of software engineering practices including breaking down work, code review, testing, source control, build processes
• Understand and share expertise in mentoring and coaching a team of engineers, ensuring standards and best practices are maintained.
• Develop and support solutions that deliver enhanced levels of automation and auto-remediation across our systems. Automation will be a key focus to all solutions implemented.
• Demonstrate understanding, motivations and expertise in collaborating and developing mutual respect and trust with product managers, engineers, researchers and designers.
• Create and enhance team culture, by sharing your knowledge and ideas, giving and receiving constructive feedback

Qualifications

What we are looking for?

We build distributed systems using a wide range of tools and technologies. As a senior engineer, you'll bring deep technical expertise and lead by example. You won't need to know every tool we use, but strong experience in the following areas is essential:

• Extensive backend development with .NET ecosystems.
• Demonstrated experience with data-intensive storage and processing frameworks (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, Spark, EMR)
• Proven track record building event-driven and distributed systems.
• Experience with caching (e.g. Redis, in-memory) to support scale and speed.
• Solid front-end development experience; Angular / React preferrable
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, AWS) and DevOps practices such as CI/CD, containers, and infrastructure as code.
• Skilled at applying appropriate engineering methods (e.g. modularisations, abstractions) that make assets tractable

Additional Information

A few other things we want to let you know about...

• carsales is an equal opportunity employer who prides themselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages, genders and backgrounds to apply. If you're a candidate with a disability or you'll need some adjustments to be at your best, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.
• We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process if you want to know more just ask
• We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant.
• Successful candidates joining the carsales family are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis.

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.